Word: gingerbreads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finds it, Yale may well run through that one spot for at least half the game. The rest of the offense will consist of passes, unless Spears finds no holes. In that case, it will have to be "gingerbread" stuff around the ends--and passes...
...cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest creations turned into a series of meaningless stylistic mannerisms...
...such protest of pepper-gingerbread...
Architect Neutra and his fellow members in the cult of the clean line and glassy expanse are as hopelessly enslaved by their own fetishes-the concrete slab, the flat roof, the mantel-less fireplace-as were their predecessors of the gingerbread and rococo schools...
With the residue of still older favorites-from Spanish (and stucco-Spanish) to the gingerbread and rocking-chair porches of Victonanism and an occasional Mediterranean villa-the region showed most of the trials, errors and nostalgias in U S architectural history...